I love using math games. The kids love them and they're good practice for fact fluency. However, I wanted to have a bunch of different ...

DIY Project #1: I was cleaning out some old kindergarten supplies and came across the purple drawer container which used to house all of ...

Last fall, I did a Gratitude Journal with my students. Every day, for 42 days in a row, they had to write down 3 things they were grateful f...

We have a program at my school where students are encouraged to set weekly goals, and long term goals. I find that after a while, kids set t...

I have posted before about taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge with my students. For the last two years, I have spent the month of November p...

I finally finished my goal of converting all of my review cards for the chapters into digital files. I've been using random sized index ...

This year, the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes got together to do an end of the year project which we named Biome Bonanza. We put the student...

With every unit in math, I give out a math challenge that reviews some of the major concepts from the previous unit. I had a challenge for m...

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. During the month of November, people from all over get together and set their ...

Veterans Day is a big deal at our school, as it should be. Each year we invite Veterans from the community to join us for an assembly...

As a follow up to one of my most popular items, School-Themed Mad Libs, I have put together a set of 4 Animal-Themed Mad Libs which is avai...

My students recently finished a biography partner project, which was designed not only as a reading and research project, but also to help s...

November is a time for Parent-Teacher conferences, which I must admit are not my favorite. I spend so much time trying to think of everythin...

One of my biggest pet peeves about classroom jobs is the kids not doing them regularly (my custodian agrees when the trash cans aren't p...

My students have a S.T.A.R. (Students Taking Active Responsibility) Binder where they keep all of their homework, goal setting sheets, readi...

Another one finished! Chapter 4 Everyday Math pretest is now available! If you are interested in using them in your own classroom, Chapter...

Well, I'm 3 for 3 now with pretests! My goal is to make one for each of the 12 units, so I'm a quarter of the way done! If you are...

It's always a challenge moving to a new grade level, and I've been feeling like I'm trying to dig my way out of a hole ever sinc...

I knew at the end of last year that there would still be some students who really struggled with basic facts.  Watching a child sit there ad...

I came to the sudden realization the other day that except for the little welcome bird I made, my doors were quite empty!  Worse yet, I have...